KDE won't log out properly; black screen and mouse pointer

dave_deu

As the title says, when I click on "log out" on the KDE Kmenu all the windows close and I am left with a black screen and the mouse pointer (which I can move around) and nothing else. It does not log out properly.

If I try to shutdown from command line or use Kmenu to shut down the same thing happens with the mouse pointer and black screen, and it doesn't shut down.

The only way to shut down on my PC is to type it as root!!!

Please can someone help? Thankyou in advance.

sonicbhoc · Posted: Mon Jul 31, 2006 10:07 pm Post subject:

are you using KDM?

Bobnoxous · Apprentice Joined: 03 May 2005 Posts: 240

I would expect an error message somewhere. While it's in this state, can you <ctrl>F1 to get to a console window, login as root, and look for an error message? I'd check the X server log in /var/log, and try dmesg.
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dave_deu · Posted: Mon Jul 31, 2006 10:40 pm Post subject:

Yes, I'm using kdm as my log in manager. I'll have a look at dmesg etc shortly.

dave_deu · Posted: Mon Jul 31, 2006 10:50 pm Post subject:

Nothing useful in dmesg.

Update: ctrl-alt-backspace successfully gets me back to kdm.

Relevant parts of /var/log/messages:

Bobnoxous · Apprentice Joined: 03 May 2005 Posts: 240

The x log should be in /var/log, I think. I don't remember if it's called Xorg.0.log, or something like that.
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dyatel15 · n00b Joined: 14 Mar 2006 Posts: 20

MrEntropy · n00b Joined: 03 Nov 2005 Posts: 74 Location: Austin

I get the same thing most of the times, and I'm using the nVidia drivers (with an nVidia card, of course).
Sometimes (rarely) it works.

dave_deu · Posted: Tue Aug 29, 2006 9:10 pm Post subject:

I have nailed down the problem to arts. Whenever artsd is running and I try to shutdown, it always fails. When I do "killall -9 artsd" as normal user and then try to shutdown it works perfectly, no problems.
Hence, doing "ps ux | grep arts" (when I haven't done killall) gives the following:

user 7714 0.1 0.7 11108 6376 ? S 21:53 0:00 /usr/kde/3.5/bin/artsd -F 6 -S 256 -a alsa -d -b 16 -s 60 -m artsmessage -c drkonqi -l 3 -f

Any ideas?

Buddha001 · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 24 Nov 2005 Posts: 76

I too am having the same problem with nvidia drivers. If anyone has a clue about what's going on or knows how to solve it, please post.